Miss Younger's Math Musings
I have presented my final task as a SWAY for public presentation. I have also included PDFs of the unit plan and performance tasks for this unit. All photos in the sway are my own images taken over the last 5-10 summers as I have travelled the BC Coast.
I have created a presentation on how to create inquiry units. The presentation reflects my process and how I would present it in a workshop to other teachers. This presentation also sums up my learning over the past several weeks showing how I have deepened my understanding of using inquiry as a tool to get…
Over the last few weeks, I have been exposed to many new thinking routines that I am excited to try with my students in the fall. Looking at these routines I can see so many valuable opportunities for growth. My goal next year is to have my students be the primary thinkers in the classroom…
In my most recent course we have done a lot of work on questioning and asking good questions. My response below comes from the thinking routine I used to think .. Now I think from Project Zero. https://pz.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/I%20Used%20to%20Think%20-%20Now%20I%20Think_1.pdf Resources for questioning that changed my thinking Factual, Conceptual, Debatable Questions Essential Questions Good Inquiry Questions Characteristics…
I have attached my template and my the beginning of my Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest unit. I typically only plan the first few detailed lessons of an inquiry unit in advance as they are the ones I use to build curiosity and back ground knowledge before diving into the inquiry with my students…
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I have created a single point rubric using student friendly language for our Who HQ project. Who HQ is a grade wide project where each student picks a person featured in the Who Was book series and spends most of second term learning about them before we present our “living museum” where students dress up…
This is something I would like to include in my BC Coast unit as something we would work on as part of our inquiry process getting to know the coast. I have included my teacher planning as well as what I would give to my students, typically with my class I would model the steps…
Summative assessment is not limited to a unit test, essay or paragraph, it can take on many forms that allow each student to shine. These are some of the things I have done or would like to try with my grade 4s Commercial Diorama Comic book Stop motion animation Build a play list for a…
Prompt: three typical questions in your curricular area: one factual, one conceptual and one debatable, around the theme of famous Canadians, answering the following: What…? How…? Should…? I would use this for our biographies unit where students pick a historical figure they admire and we work through the historical thinking concepts to discuss what that…
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https://studylib.net/doc/6909689/inquiry-questions—ccbmyp15-16 In reading about the different types of questions I have to say I disagree with the statement “I use conceptual or debatable questions more frequently than factual questions in my courses.” I realize most of my questions lean towards factual and conceptual questions and I rarely ask debatable questions. I do have them towards…
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